Atlas climatologique de l'Empire de Russie

Abstract

THIS magnificent atlas has been prepared by Director Rykatchewand published in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation, by the Emperor Nicholas I. on April 1, 1849, of the Central Physical Observatory. The atlas comprises eighty-nine large meteorological maps, together with fifteen graphical tables, which give the best presentation hitherto published of the main features of the climates of the great Eurasian Empire of Russia. Previous to 1849, the meteorology of Russia was prosecuted chiefly by the establishment of first-class meteorological observatories in different parts of the empire, at which eye observations were made hourly by night and by day. It is scarcely possible to exaggerate the importance of these hourly and other results in furthering the development of the science. Indeed, it may be safely predieted that in future developments of meteorology the knowledge thus obtained of the hourly variations from year to year of pressure and temperature, the two prime elements of climate, will always hold a prominent place, more particularly in investigating the relations of meteorology to the secular solar changes.

Atlas climatologique de l'Empire de Russie.

Publié par l'Observatoire physique central Nicolas, à l'Occasion du cinquantième Anniversaire de ses Fondation, 1849–1899. (St. Petersbourg, 1900.)